Despite the wildly successful reissue of the Star Wars trilogy, Harrison Ford isn't interested in reliving his Han Solo years. "Once a film is finished," he says, "it's over for me. I'm on to something else." Ford, 54, who matches wits with Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own, the thriller opening March 26, has had an even tougher time burying his past as Indiana Jones. "Let's say I go to the hardware store," he says. "I want to talk about screws. I don't want to talk about whether I'm going to do Indiana Jones 4." But Ford does have a keepsake from that action hero. "Okay, I still have the hat," he admits. But it has been a long time since he slipped on Indy's famed fedora. "It's somewhere in a closet, behind lots of stuff," says Ford. "I'm not even sure what closet."
CIVIL WARRIOR
Breaking the Waves' Emily Watson, in the running for the Best Actress Oscar, has been breaking bread with the competition, Secrets & Lies' Brenda Blethyn. "We've been up for the same awards since last May," Watson, 30, says of her fellow Brit. "So we've been hanging out at all these awards ceremonies." Who's winning the head-to-head rivalry? "I'd say Brenda," says Watson. "I really don't know [the score], and I really don't want to care too much. But we do have a laugh about it." She won't mind if Blethyn gets the last laugh on Oscar night March 24. "She is lovely," says Watson, who has been working on the all-important grin-and-clap routine in the event she's an also-ran. "I am in front of the mirror," she says with a laugh, "practicing for hours."
BILL MEETS BILL
As host of ABC's late-night talk show Politically Incorrect, comedian Bill Maher skewers President Clinton regularly. So Maher was surprised when he was asked to perform earlier this month at the Ford's Theatre presidential gala in Washington (taped to air March 29 on ABC). When he met the President at a White House reception beforehand, "I got a little bit of the evil eye," says Maher, 41, "like maybe he saw something [on my show] the night before he didn't like." But apparently there were no hard feelings. "I brought my mother [Julie Maher]," says Maher. "And I said, 'Mr. President, this is my mother. She's going to be 78 tomorrow' And he stood and held her. He didn't perfunctorily say, 'Happy birthday' and move on." Then the First Lady got into the act. After Maher joined Natalie Cole, Jon Bon Jovi and Kevin Spacey onstage at Ford's, he says, "Hillary got up and said to everybody, 'It's Bon Jovi's birthday. It's also Bill Maher's mother's birthday. Her name is Julie, so let's sing "Happy Birthday!" ' It was amazing."
MAKING UP WITH DAD
Lush-lipped actress Liv Tyler ignores the hype that she is one of Hollywood's hottest young stars. "Lips, ships, hoopla, schmoopla," says Tyler, 19, who plays one of three sisters in the '50s drama Inventing the Abbotts, opening April 4. "When I see a mag with me on the cover, it looks like a mock thing my friends made up as a joke." The ex-model says she wasn't taken seriously as an actress until she starred in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty and Tom Hanks's That Thing You Do! "Everyone treated me like this kid," says Tyler. "Now my opinion is considered worthy. Finally." But offscreen, she's pure teen. "I just want to sleep late, listen to music and go to the mall," says Tyler. "And I still have slumber parties with my father [Aerosmith's Steven Tyler] where we do beauty treatments. It's really cool because he has all the good creams and stuff."
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